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Customer Service at Sea

To provide great customer service, consider hiring talent with empathy, empowering your team to make decisions, and creating relationships among team members.
Date Published May 10, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

The Advancement Myth: Rethink Leadership Strategies to Empower Growth

What kind of work would you expect from someone if they accepted that their work was inherently less valuable and advancement was a myth?
Date Published May 9, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

#HDIchat Recap: Getting the Most Out of a Conference

Making the most of a conference experience includes comfy shoes and taking actionable items back to your organization.
Date Published May 5, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

Lessons in Leadership: Reflections from Roy Atkinson

Roy Atkinson was named one of HDI’s Top 25 Thought Leaders in Technical Support and Service Management. Learn what motivates Roy to be involved in the community.
Date Published May 4, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

Metric of the Month: Service Desk Cost per Ticket

Cost per ticket is the total monthly operating expense of a service desk divided by the monthly ticket volume. Do you know your cost per ticket?
Date Published May 2, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

#HDIchat Recap: How Do You Write Great Email to Customers?

Email is still an important channel for support centers, and good written communication is not to be taken for granted.
Date Published April 27, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

Drive KCS Adoption with an UFFA Balanced Scorecard

A new UFFA scoring method could help you gain a new appreciation for KCS expectations for your tech support staff and give you an action plan for optimizing KCS.
Date Published April 27, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

The Mission of Tech Support Has Changed

The mission of technical support has been to get people back to work quickly after an incident or for a service request. But that can no longer be our primary mission.
Date Published April 26, 2017 - Last Updated April 19, 2019

What Works in Training: Repetition

To help learning stick, repetition in a variety of different ways is one of the most important tools a trainer has.
Date Published April 25, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017

The Myth of Proactive Problem Management - Part 4

Learn why changing our data source from cases to articles moves us from reactive to proactive problem management for tech support.
Date Published April 20, 2017 - Last Updated December 6, 2017